To:YELENA STASOVA, F. V. LENGNIK, AND OTHERS[1]

Written:Written September 23, 1904Published:First published in 1930 inLenin Miscellany XV.

      Sent from Geneva to Moscow.

      Printed from the original in Krupskaya’s handwriting.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

      pages126b-127a.Translated:Martin Parker and Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

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DearFriends,

Wewere overjoyed to receive your letter, which emanates so much spirit
that it has imbued us all with new
energy.[2]You must carry out your plan by all means. It is an excellent
plan and will have tremendous significance. It is also urgently necessary
to write to the German. We are eagerly waiting to hear from you. Your
advice as regards a publishing business has already been half-realised. The
writers we have, and a mass of ready material. In general we are all in
excellent spirits now, there are plenty of plans, Stanktoo has buckled down to work, correspondence with Russia and abroad has
livened up, and now, I hope, people will soon begin to grouping. The
Minority is now flirting with the conciliators, the Central Organ is
undertaking the publication of a popular paper, theYuzhny Rabochypeople have been given a big bite. Particulars about the publishing
business of the Majority will be passed on to you by our common
acquaintances, to whom we shall write about this in detail.Kol’s wife
and child are well, they live in Yekaterinoslav.Repeatthe names of
people whom it is desirable to enlist in literary work.Brodyaga has
arrived,the Minority is wooing him, he has not yet taken a definite
stand. Josephine is here, physically she is very poorly. The forwarding
office has been turned over to the C.C. Well, I suppose that’s all. We
embrace you warmly, dear friends, wish you health and strength.

Stank& Co..

[1]Writtenby Krupskaya on Lenin’s instructions.—Ed.

[2]Leninis referring to a letter written by F. V. Lengnik on August 22,
1904, in Taganka prison in Moscow (seeLenin Miscellany XV,
pp. 159–62).